To MACUA. Dear friends, dear brothers and sisters, We send you warm and fraternal greetings for your protest march on 5 February and all further actions until those responsible in the government and police are punished for the murder of over 100 miners and justice is done to the miners and their families. Unfortunately, we cannot be there in person, but we are with you.
Dear Miners and Families, Dear Friends of MACUA, We miners of the world stand shoulder to shoulder with the miners and their families in Stilfontein, who take on dangerous and hard work to survive with their families. Miners are miners, we do not allow ourselves to be divided into migrant or local, industrial or artisanal miners.
Dear Comrade Andreas Tadysiak and the International Miners' Coordination, Revolutionary greetings from MACUA and all the mining-affected communities we represent. We deeply appreciate your solidarity and the continued efforts of the International Miners' Coordination (IMC) in amplifying the plight of miners, their families, and the broader community affected by the horrific events in Stilfontein. Your letter of support, protest action in Berlin, and fundraising initiatives in Germany are a testament to the internationalism and shared struggle of working-class and mining-affected communities globally.
Dear friends of MACUA, miners and their families, It is with great joy that we have learned that the rescue of the miners in Stilfontein has finally been fought for. Congratulations to all who contributed to this. At the same time, we are angry and shocked by the hundreds of uncounted dead and the terrible condition of those rescued. I am Andreas Tadysiak, a former underground coal miner with almost 40 years of professional experience and a trade union member.
Dear Mr President, We miners' wives in the Courage/Germany Women's Association protest in the strongest possible terms that you and your government are deliberately accepting the deaths of the trapped miners of Stilfontein. The starvation of the miners by the police is murder in our eyes.We call on you and your government to do everything in your power to ensure that the trapped miners of Shaft 11 are freed immediately and that help is allowed in without delay.
Dear women, families of the miners of Stilfontein. We were horrified to read that the South African government is deliberately and inhumanely accepting the death of your husbands and sons.We are with you with all our hearts and you have our fullest solidarity. We mourn with you the miners who have already died. For us this is murder and the murderers are the police and the South African government who are keeping your men and sons trapped in the mines without food and water.
We denounce the premeditated mass murder of at least 109 miners by the government of South Africa!
The whole world has watched as half-starved and dead miners have been recovered from the Stilfontein mine near Johannesburg. The South African government, namely President Cyril Ramaphosa, state ministries and the police are responsible for this!
Dear friends, we have just learnt of a crime currently being committed by the South African government against thousands of informal miners. It's hard to believe, so here are a few sources. We will of course also organise solidarity from Marikana. Unfortunately, we hear nothing about protests against the state-organised fascist agitation and violence against the migrants.
We, the continental coordinator of mineworkers, hereby protest against the inhumane treatment, bordering on criminality, inflicted on immigrants by the South African Government. This is no less than the odious criminal acts against humanity that are taking place in STILFONTEIN, South Africa, and it is serious.